brightsolid and Versko launch partnership
Combined with brightsolid's expertise in Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft Outlook, this allows brightsolid and Versko to provide a fully managed hosted email service to customers, regardless of the technology platform chosen.
Lotus eMail and collaboration products such as Notes and Domino, Sametime and Quickr continue to have a significant market share. Due to the rich application development environment, customers often have significant investment in mission critical applications built on Lotus technologies, which Versko have significant expertise in migrating to a hosted solution.
Richard Higgs, Managing Director of brightsolid Online Technology comments, "I am delighted with this new partnership with Versko. Lotus technology continues to be used by a large and important part of the market, and this, together with our in-house hosted Microsoft Exchange product, allows us to serve as many customers as possible.
"Versko is synonymous with Lotus and IBM in Scotland and we have created a strong and compelling service for organisations, many of whom have invested in IBM and Lotus technologies over many years. brightsolid and Versko can drive real value from these investments and help organisations to embrace and leverage the outsource model to their maximum benefit."
Rob Walker, Managing Director of Versko adds, "We are delighted with the partnership with brightsolid. I have known Richard for many years and look forward to the success of this new initiative. By leveraging brightsolid's expertise gained in the hosting of email using the Microsoft platform we are able to add Lotus-based solutions to the offering and cover over 90% of the market for hosted email solutions of this nature." www.versko.com
